Author Topic: AMD64: Question about Memory-Slots (Read 368 times)

airmess · « **on:** December 22, 2003, 05:53:16 PM »

Skuzzy ... maybe you can answer this.

I'm using:
- AMD64 / 3200
- Asus K8V Deluxe Motherboard / KT800
- 3 x 512 MB / DDR 400 RAM

Question
This motherboard has 3 slots and i'm using all of them with each 512 MB RAM. Now i've read a article saying, that those boards better work with only 2 slots active with DDR400 Memory.

With 2 slots activated they say, that the Memory frequency will drop between 333 and 266 and the system cant properly manage 3 slots.

Is that true ? Should i better work with only 2 slots ? Does anyone of you know something about it ?

Thanks guys

airmess

bloom25 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 22, 2003, 07:00:25 PM »

Look at page 2-12 in your manual. You can use two double sided DDR400 sticks in slots 1 & 3 (one stick in the blue slot, the other in the yellow slot) and run at DDR400 speeds. There are a bunch of configurations, but you cannot fill all three slots and run at DDR400 speeds.

Griego · « **Reply #2 on:** December 22, 2003, 10:35:22 PM »

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Originally posted by bloom25
Look at page 2-12 in your manual. You can use two double sided DDR400 sticks in slots 1 & 3 (one stick in the blue slot, the other in the yellow slot) and run at DDR400 speeds. There are a bunch of configurations, but you cannot fill all three slots and run at DDR400 speeds.

Does that mean that In this motherboard your limited to 1024mb
of DDR for it to run at DDR400 speeds?

If this is so isn't it a bit short sighted.

Pfunk · « **Reply #3 on:** December 23, 2003, 02:56:06 AM »

what the hell are you running that uses over 1GB of memory?

bloom25 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 23, 2003, 06:01:22 PM »

2 GB would be the limit, by using two 1 GB sticks of DDR400. I don't see even 1 GB as a serious limit, as there are very few applications that would be able to make use of more than 1 GB of memory, and certainly nothing a home user would be using.

mold · « **Reply #5 on:** December 24, 2003, 09:51:07 AM »

The advantage of 1GB comes up when running multiple apps at once. And home users may benefit as well if doing things like video editing. Certainly I did. Also, some folks apparently get better performance in IL2 with 1 GB. I don't know about that myself.